Elizabeth Warren Tees Off On Trump's Wall Street Picks
In today's episode of "Who Will Cable News Defend," Anderson Cooper took up arms for Steven Mnuchin, facing off with formidable Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Anderson Cooper, in the role of Wall Street defender, asked Senator Warren whether it was fair to exclude anyone who worked in finance from roles in government. She set him straight, and quickly.
After explaining that voters were angry about Wall Street turning their lives upside down and turning them out of their homes, not paying any price for that, and then infuriating everyone, Warren laid down the problem.
"Donald Trump tapped into that anger and he promised when he was running for president that he would break the connection between Wall Street and this Congress," she remonstrated. "He wasn't going to do that sort of thing, and then what does he do? He turns around and picks a guy who had actually been one of the people who helped do all of those lousy mortgages."
Yes, Steven Mnuchin was that guy. And that was just the beginning of what he did, as Warren explained. "Then after the crash, a guy who turned around and bought a bank that then became infamous for how hard it squeezed families that had already been cheated, and was the foreclosure machine following that."
Mnuchin profited handsomely from Wall Street's malfeasance and other people's pain.